Before anyone allows Trump to disturb our current health-care system, make sure you demand that his alternative fulfills his promise of "cheaper, better health care." Never forget what he has said about health care and what he plans to do.

In February 2017, Donald Trump was quoted as saying at the National Governors Association, “I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.”

He again flirted with the idea that Republicans should let Obamacare “implode” so Democrats shoulder the blame. "Let it be a disaster, because we can blame that on the Dems that are in our room — and we can blame that on the Democrats and President Obama," Trump said.

If that is not enough, remember what former Republican Speaker John Boehner said. “Republicans never, ever agree on health care.”

Or former Speaker Newt Gingrich: "I will bet you, for most of you, you go home in the next two weeks when your members of Congress are home, and you look them in the eye and you say, 'What is your positive replacement for Obamacare?' They will have zero answer."

Jim Matlock, Ventura

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